September 7, 2018: Israel Censors News On Its Support To Militants In Syria

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The Israeli military is censoring news reports on Israel providing weapons and supplies to militant groups in Syria. The Jerusalem Post was told by the military censor to remove its story “IDF Confirms: Israel Provided Light-Weapons To Syrian Rebels”. However, the report providing details on the transfer of significant amounts of cash, weapons and ammunition to militants in southern Syria is still available via Google cache.

The support received by militants were provided by Tel Aviv in the framework of its Operation Good Neighbor, which Israel portrayed as a humanitarian mission focused on providing Syrians with “food, clothes and fuel.”

This incident once again demonstrates that all claims of Tel Aviv that it is not involved in the ongoing conflict in Syria are false.

France’s Chief of the Defense Staff Francois Lecointre stated on September 6 that French forces are ready to strike Syria once again if chemical weapons are used during the upcoming battle of Idlib.

“We are ready to strike if chemical weapons were used again,” the top military official told media. “They can be carried out at national level but it’s in our interest to do it with as many partners as possible.”

On September 6, US Defense Secretary James Mattis stated that the Pentagon has no intelligence suggesting that Syrian militants are capable of staging a chemical attack. Thus, if such an attack is staged, the US and its allies are not going to investigate the incident. They already know that the Damascus government will be guilty.

ISIS members carried out several attacks on positions of the Syrian Army on the western bank of the Euphrates. According to pro-government and pro-ISIS sources, several army troops and terrorists were killed in the clashes. However, ISIS has captured no positions.

Local sources say that the attack was carried out to draw the army’s attention from the area of al-Safa and the area southeast of Deir Ezzor city. A source in the SAA’s 11th Division told SouthFront that government troops are currently reinforcing their positions around the Homs desert. The goal is to limit the ISIS capabilities of carrying out attacks from this contested area.

According to pro-Turkish sources, a total of 170 members of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were “neutralized” by the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) in Turkey, northern Syria and northern Iraq in August. Turkey-led forces also detained some 253 suspects in the framework of their anti-PKK operations in Turkey. 70 of them remanded in custody.

Despite these claims, the TAF and its proxies are still unable to eliminate the YPG insurgency in the northern Syrian area of Afrin captured by Ankara-led forces earlier this year. YPG cells carry out attacks on Turkey-led forces there on a constant basis.

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“We are ready to strike if chemical weapons were used again,” the top military official told media. “They can be carried out at national level but it’s in our interest to do it with as many partners as possible.”

Note two things ….

1) AFAIK, there is no international treaty that says everyone goes and bombs a country that is suspected of chemical weapons use. Thus, such attacks are a violation of the UN Charter and general international law concerning sovereignty.

2) Such countries should be careful, as crowd control weapons such as tear gas and pepper spray can be considered chemical weapons. Both France and the US regularly disperse crowds of citizens protesting government actions with such chemical weapons. Maybe Trump will bomb Paris the next time Macron disperses protestors to his labor anti-reforms. If this is the new international law, then Russia and China can bomb the US the next time the American police use chemical weapons to disperse crowds protesting against the human rights violation of American police regularly and unaccountably murdering American citizens. This really becomes an international law that says anybody can bomb anyone any time they want to.

“All three nations agree that the threat of radical Islamists in Syria must be eliminated, but differ as to how this should be achieved. Rouhani advocated a strong-arm approach, claiming it would secure an end to major hostilities in the seven-year-old conflict.

“We have to realize that only the destruction of the terrorists, a military victory against them, can ensure stability and peace in the future in Syria and not only in that country,” he said.

Erdogan reiterated his government’s concern over the potential death toll of an offensive in highly populated Idlib, where an estimated 3.5 million people are currently living. Turkey, which borders the Syrian governorate, is also objecting to a major operation there because it would likely cause a major exodus of refugees across the border, with extremists potentially sneaking in with refugees.

“[The refugees] would have no other way to go but Turkey. But we have already accepted 3.5 million refugees. Turkey cannot take in more,” said President Erdogan.

“Our goal is to resolve the situation in Idlib according to the spirit of the agreements we made in Astana,” Erdogan added, warning that “mistakes in Idlib may derail the political process in Syria.”

The Iranian president eventually agreed that civilians living in Idlib should not become victims of an anti-terrorist effort.

At Erdogan’s suggestion, the final communique of the summit was amended to include a call for all armed groups in Idlib to lay down arms and seek a political transition in the country. Putin and Rouhani agreed, which may indicate that a major offensive in Idlib is not likely to be launched in the immediate future, unless some major development happens on the ground. The Russian president remarked that the call is addressed to all armed groups in the Syrian province, including UN-designated terrorist groups.

“Let us hope that the members of the terrorist organizations would have enough sense to stop resistance and lay down weapons,” he said.

“Our agreements on Syria were always based on a premise that we are seeking to ensure peace between all belligerents, but kept the terrorist organizations bracketed out,” he remarked.

As he was arguing against an offensive in Idlib, Erdogan acknowledged that armed groups controlling the governorate pose a credible threat, including to Russian military personnel stationed at Khmeimim Airbase. He suggested that regular drone attacks on the Russian military site should be stopped by pushing those launching them out of range.

During the summit, Rouhani and Erdogan were united in their criticism of the presence of US troops in Syria. The Iranian president repeatedly stressed that foreign influence was a major factor in escalating the war in Syria, and called on the US to withdraw the troops that it has illegally deployed in Syria. Erdogan reiterated Ankara’s objection to the support that the US gives Kurdish militias in northern Syria, which are perceived as a major security threat by the Turkish government.

Putin’s remarks on the situation in Syria tilted towards humanitarian aspects and the necessity to reconstruct the country. He said that many people who had fled violence in Syria to other nations may now return to their homes.

“Conditions have been made in Syria to take in up to a million of refugees. The government has provided security guarantees to all returnees, assuring that they would not be subjected to discrimination, including in terms of property rights,” he said.

The Russian president argued that, if as many Syrians as possible get a chance to return to peaceful lives, it would give an impetus to a political resolution of the conflict between the Syrian government and the so-called “moderate opposition.” Erdogan disagreed with Putin, saying that the return of refugees to Syria would only be possible after a new constitution is agreed and adopted, and an election held to form a new government.”

No doubt the Russia bashing websayanim will be working overtime now claiming Putin folded. There are only 2 Putin’s according to these zionazi-gay (egual emphasis on both defects) psywar workers:

An incompetent Putin, but blood thirsty Putin, who practices totalitarianism (stalin, hitler, pol pot, you name it…but not those recognised nice guys such as franco, petluria, bandera, shamir, etc.)

The Turks continue to be a spanner in the works, but not THE spanner in the works, israeloamerica and buggered colonial assets (nato – gay as always) being obviously that. Read another article earlier on the Turk proposal regarding their stance. It was about pulling the turk aligned “irregulars” closer to the turk-Syrian border and putting them under better supervision, or something like that. If I find the article later, I will follow up here.

“In a bid to avoid massive loss of life in the event of a major assault by Syrian government forces, Turkey has drawn up a plan that would allow militants safe passage from the northwestern province, the newspaper Daily Sabah reported.

According to the plan, unveiled by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting with his Russian and Iranian counterparts in Tehran to discuss the war in Syria and a possible military offensive to retake the rebel enclave of Idlib, 12 armed groups, including the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, would surrender their weapons.

The fighters would then be evacuated to a buffer zone under the surveillance of the so-called moderate opposition on condition that they hand over their weapons to a coalition of militant groups backed by Ankara, the newspaper wrote without revealing its sources.

Foreign fighters would be allowed to return to their home countries, but the groups who refused to disarm and move out would become the target of counter-terror operations.

Turkey will then train a militant force to ensure security in the province, just like in other Syrian regions controlled by Ankara-backed fighters.

The province of Idlib is home to about three million civilians — nearly half of them displaced from other parts of Syria.

According to analysts, Ankara could agree to a limited offensive in Idlib by Damascus and its allies even if it leaves the question of the long-term control of the province open for now, the Daily Sabah wrote.”

The article was written before the summit between the 3 took place. I don’t know how much, if any, of the Turk proposal was agreed upon there. It does sound like that some of this proposal was agreed to, though, going by what was said after the meet about insurgents (terrorists) laying down their arms and calling it quits.

“The Russian military has obtained “irrefutable” data that terrorist groups, including Jabhat an-Nusra, and the infamous White Helmets met in Idlib province on Sunday, according to the ministry’s spokesperson Igor Konashenkov.

The militants plotted the final scenarios for the chemical attacks that the Syrian army are expected to make in the cities of Jisr ash-Shugur, Serakab, Taftanaz and Sarmin, the Russian military revealed.

“Full readiness of all participants involved in the staging of the provocations is be ensured by the evening of September 8,” Konashenkov stated. He added that the terrorists are to receive a “special” signal from some “foreign friends of Syrian revolution” to launch the operation.”

‘God’s chosen people,’ suppressing the ‘truth?’ There is a glaring incongruity between a ‘people’ associated with ‘God’ who traditionally champions ‘truth;’ in contrast to the Israeli ‘cabal’ and regime, that strong arms the public stifling of truth.

“The 13 Syrian soldiers killed by the Kurdish-led Asayish police forces had previously encountered a group of U.S. troops attempting to enter the city of Qamishli, a military source told Al-Masdar News this evening.

According to the military source, the Syrian soldiers prevented the U.S. forces from entering Qamishli through the government’s checkpoint.

The source added that the Syrian military believes the Asayish forces that attacked them were doing so in retaliation for this previous engagement with the U.S. troops.”

The incident:

Breaking: More than 10 Syrian soldiers killed by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria

“A number of Syrian state and media-linked YouTube accounts have gone dark, as the battle for Idlib looms, amid Russia’s warnings of an imminent false-flag chemical attack and Western preparations for retaliatory strikes.

On Saturday afternoon, the channels belonging to the Syrian Presidency, the country’s Ministry of Defense, and SANA news all showed a message saying: “This account has been terminated due to a legal complaint” or “This account has been terminated for a violation of YouTube’s Terms of Service.”

The Damascus-based Sama TV’s channel on YouTube also appeared to be taken down, with a message reading: “This page isn’t available. Sorry about that. Try searching for something else.”

While YouTube has yet to issue a comment on the matter, it appears that Syrian channels went offline sometime on Saturday morning, just as Gen. Joseph Dunford warned that Pentagon is preparing and keeping Donald Trump informed about “military options” for retaliation in case “chemical weapons are used” in Syria.

The US has made it abundantly clear that it is ready to attack Syria, should chemical weapons come into play in the government Idlib operation to clear the remaining pockets of jihadists resistance in the province. Moscow believes that terrorists holed up in Idlib will try to stage a false flag attack to frame Damascus to justify further air strikes against Syria, and has warned the US against escalating the situation in the war-torn country.

On Saturday, the Russian military said it had obtained “irrefutable” data that terrorist groups, including Jabhat an-Nusra, and the infamous White Helmets, already met in Idlib province, and plotted the final scenarios for the false-flag chemical attacks in the cities of Jisr ash-Shugur, Serakab, Taftanaz and Sarmin.

The US and its allies have repeatedly stressed its readiness to strike Syria if any attack takes place, ignoring all Russia’s warnings.

#YouTube shutting down #Syria govt channels bad, whatever the reason.

Best case, it’s just more in the growing wave of online #censorship and attacks on #FreeSpeech.

That’s clear indication US-UK-FR are planning airstrike, maybe more. Cutting off real Syria news/communications to rest of world. It’s war preparations for sure. #Google & #YouTube are enablers of WAR, they & Tech firm censors should be held responsible for any war that ensues.
— Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) September 8, 2018

to everyone on the left who is applauding social media censorship done in secret by unelected Silicon Valley billionaires, if you ever have the courage to stand up against their B.S. wars -you are next. https://t.co/BZHol6rMJ7
— Jimmy Dore (@jimmy_dore) September 8, 2018

Days before they AQ terrorists in Idlib do their expected CW false flag attack YouTube and NATO “Think Tank” Atlantic Council (Who’re in charge of FB+YT censorship) Mass ban Pro-Syrian accounts. Not suspicious at all.
— Michael (@MichaelNo2War) September 8, 2018″

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